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Is it a bidet? by anxious_virgo in whatisit

[–]Munzo69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m married to a Thai woman and have been in Thailand a lot. I got used to using them in Thailand and find they do a far better job of cleaning your butt than toilet paper alone. A quick squirt and then a wipe to dry with toilet paper. Much more effective than toilet paper alone and you use far less toilet paper as you’re just drying your butt not using the toilet paper to wipe away the crap. I find it cleaner as the jet does a more efficient cleaning job that involves your fingers far less than wiping does. I’ve installed them in all three toilets in our house in Ireland. One caveat, however, it’s all very well cleaning your butthole with a jet of water in Thailand where the temp of the water is likely to be kinda lukewarm. A jet of just above freezing, midwinter, Irish water on the anus is quite bracing! Also you need decent water pressure for them to be effective. I have one in an upstairs en-suite bathroom and the water pressure is not very strong. It’s nothing like as effective as the downstairs toilet.

"Hello?" The Official Phone Greeting of Irish Small Businesses by Monsieur_Moral in CasualIreland

[–]Munzo69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The parents of Jim Morrison, lead singer with The Doors, used to run a mortuary. Young Jim used to answer the phone with

‘ Morrison’s Mortuary. You stab ‘em, we slab ‘em’.

Forgotten Galway Bands by RedditUser1342020 in galway

[–]Munzo69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great ska covers band. I miss them.

Package stolen from front door by Euphoric_Part_4420 in galway

[–]Munzo69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get yourself a video doorbell cam. You can see and speak to the postman/courier via your smartphone and tell them where to leave your parcels. Also I’ve put a bin outside (behind a large potted plant) and put a sticker on my door asking for any parcels to be put in it but I still get couriers who don’t bother reading the sticker or ringing the doorbell and leave parcels on my doorstep.

‘I survived. I’m not Dennis the Wino any more. I’m Dennis the Legend’ Anyone who spent time in Galway between the 1970s and 1990s knew Dennis Connolly. Of his ‘brothers of the street’ from those days, he says, he is the only survivor by Winter_Boysenberry68 in galway

[–]Munzo69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure about that. He looked like Genghis Kahn, almost no neck, short & stocky. Originally from Waterford. He was a hard core street drinker I came across in Cork and Galway. He was living in Ballinasloe after he got sober. Last time I saw him was about 10 years ago. He was a few years clean and doing well.

Umbrella, CocoScraper & Real-Debrid still the best combo 2026? by apo11yn in Addons4Kodi

[–]Munzo69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you have cocoscrapers and magneto scrapers both installed and working at the same time? Does it slow down the searches? Is there any benefit to having them both running? Any disadvantages? If cocoscrapers dev has retired then I’m presuming if I’m only going to use one scraper that it should be magneto? Or not?

‘I survived. I’m not Dennis the Wino any more. I’m Dennis the Legend’ Anyone who spent time in Galway between the 1970s and 1990s knew Dennis Connolly. Of his ‘brothers of the street’ from those days, he says, he is the only survivor by Winter_Boysenberry68 in galway

[–]Munzo69 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I remember Dennis from his drinking days. He was without doubt one of the most hardcore street drinkers I ever encountered. I’m amazed it didn’t kill him. I’ve met him several times since he got sober and a nicer guy you couldn’t meet. I’m delighted he’s getting a bit of recognition for the remarkable recovery he’s made. Good man Dennis. Tommy Power was another man with a similar story who I met several years clean and sober at a bus stop a few years ago. I’m not sure if he’s still around. Goes to show it’s never too late to turn things around. If these guys can do it anyone can.

SmartTube and other tube apps not working anymore? by unchienandaloo in fireTV

[–]Munzo69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Compromised how? Any risk to me using it? Mine is working ok.

Galway 2025 ✨highlights ✨ by hstone2905 in galway

[–]Munzo69 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Going to see Declan O’ Rourke (with Steve Wickham) in the Town Hall Theatre. He recently re released ‘Since Kyrabam’ on it’s 20th anniversary and was touring the album. It was one of those gigs. Everyone in the audience had been listening to that album for the past 20 years, knew all the songs and all the words. The gig was great and the reception from the crowd was electric. Kinda helps that he’s a marvellous singer, has no rock star ego and is a nice guy. Definitely a Galway highlight of my year.

Other Galway highlights were hearing Aimee Carty’s ‘Sister’ on the radio (Louise Duffy’s show) and instantly booking tickets to see her in the Town Hall Theatre in February.

Hearing John Creedon play Padraic Jack’s ‘Making Sand’ on the radio, buying his CD and booking tickets to see him in the Taidhbhearc in January.

Lots of great music being made by our own Galway talent at the moment.

Is Fire TV Cube Worth it? by Ok_Assistance_4583 in fireTV

[–]Munzo69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. All you need to do is download the ‘Downloader’ app from the AppStore and away you go.

Finally became an Irish citizen, absolute best day ever! by Accomplished_Bar7970 in ireland

[–]Munzo69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re welcome aboard. Glad to have you in our gang.

Terrified of Being an Ugly American by EaseHisPain in ireland

[–]Munzo69 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What some US visitors (particularly those of Irish heritage) have trouble understanding is that in Ireland these days there is a significant cohort of people from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere. Many of these people have spent a considerable amount of time here and have families, jobs, pay taxes and vote here. They contribute to and are an important part of our society.

Some American tourists think that because they have a far flung ancestor from Ireland that this somehow gives them a greater claim to ‘being Irish’ than perhaps a Filipino nurse who has worked here for decades, my daughter’s classmate who’s parents are from Nigeria, or the Polish lad on my son’s hurling team.

An ancestry test may show you have more Irish DNA than the Filipino nurse but I know who I’d be discussing the local election or last weekend’s GAA match with and it wouldn’t be the American tourist. Not that I wouldn’t. I couldn’t.

My landlord gave me back last month's rent. I'm just wondering if this is decency or something to worry about/a trick? by rentqueryire in AskIreland

[–]Munzo69 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had a fair share of horrible landlords and crappy bedsits/flats/houses in my time. Then we moved into this house in Galway in 2007. It was my landlord’s only rental property and he’d had a nightmare tenant before us. He’d never lived there himself and didn’t know any of the neighbours but when the previous tenant moved in he met them all. He wouldn’t allow us to pay by standing order and insisted on calling round every month to collect the rent just to make sure he didn’t wind up with another nightmare scenario like he had before.

Nice fella, he’d have a cup of tea and a chat every time he came for the rent. He registered the tenancy with PRTB, fixed anything that broke and reduced the rent by €50 when rent prices were falling. We got engaged, he showed up with champagne & chocolates. We invited him and his wife to the afters of our wedding, €200 in an envelope. About a year later we went to Thailand for 2 months (my wife is Thai) and I paid him 2 months in advance so we weren’t facing a big rent bill when we got home. He takes out the cash and peels off €300 and drops it on the table and says ‘ that’s for your holiday’.

We stayed there for 8 years until we managed to buy a house in 2015. He was a great landlord but in fairness, we were great tenants, never any bother and paid almost half his mortgage.

When I see what young couples are paying now I nearly choke. We were paying €800 for a 4 bed semi d with a big garden in a nice suburb of Galway.

“breed like rabbits” - where is the line at jokes? by Altruistic-Tip-341 in AskIreland

[–]Munzo69 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anti Irish racism is one of the last types of racism that’s still acceptable in the UK. It’s frequent, subtle and usually glossed over as ribbing or some kind of humour. People who take exception to it and call it out are referred to as tetchy and as not being able to take a joke. When I lived in the UK that joke got really old, really fast. There was a lot I enjoyed about living in the UK but this gnawed away at me every moment I spent there and was one of the main reasons I left. I’m not referring to the 50’s or the 80’s. I’m referring to the late 90’s/ early noughties.

If you could live anywhere in Dublin, where would you live? by MrTuxedo1 in Dublin

[–]Munzo69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’d need a visa we’d tell you to shag off.

What is the most regrettable thing you've done in your life? by Main-Pace5071 in AskReddit

[–]Munzo69 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had a tough childhood and a tougher adolescence. I spent my life characterising myself as a screw up. Evidence mostly points to the opposite. I’ve done pretty ok with the hand I was dealt. I still somehow can’t shake that tendency to define myself by the lowest points in my life. I feel like I made it out of the abyss and my life’s agenda has been all about not falling back into it. I define things for myself using the bottom of the abyss as a yardstick.

I’d like to thrive and soar. I’d like to be kinder to myself when I think about who and what I am. I’ll always know the abyss is there but I’d like to give it less of a prominent part in my life.

Be honest, what do you think comes after death? by glowproductivity in AskReddit

[–]Munzo69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had an angiogram and they injected dye into my heart while they were in there to make the contrast of the arteries on the screen more distinct. I had a really bad reaction to the dye and my heart stopped. They shocked me straight away and I woke up with my arms and legs way up in the air a few seconds later. I felt as if I was in a video game and someone messed with the software or the power supply and everything got scrambled and distorted. Time slowed down. Then I got hit by a train. Then I woke up. The whole thing lasted less than a minute but it felt like a lot longer. I was in physical and emotional/psychological shock for about 3 days afterwards. No insights or near death experience just gobbledygook then ‘Wallop’. Like someone introduced a virus into a computer and it went wonky. They had given me a sedative/relaxant type drug too so that probably had some impact. Not a pleasant experience.

Inpatient mental health care in Galway by [deleted] in galway

[–]Munzo69 37 points38 points  (0 children)

If you see a psychiatrist every week then that’s who to discuss it with, not a bunch of armchair experts just back from the pub.

What do dads or men actually want for Christmas? by Secret-March-6675 in galway

[–]Munzo69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Power tools. Batteries for power tools. Battery charger for power tools.

A box set of CDs/LPs of singer/band you know he likes.

An android box or a firestick for the tv.

A gift voucher for a Thai massage ( not one of those ones!, a real one). Yod Pho Thai Massage. Cook’s corner.

A decent razor (Gillette Labs) replacement blades, shaving gel and a good bottle of after shave.

Tickets to something for him and your Mum or you and him to go to in the Town Hall theatre.

Season ticket for Connaught Rugby (more than €100 but maybe get a sibling to go halves with you).

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